Hello everyone! I'm happy to say I had a successful week last week and only had small cheats on the weekend as opposed to full meals I only cheated with snacks. I also am proud to say my cheat snacks still fit within my calories for the day! Because of this, I've lost about 2lbs over a week and a half! We are going to a wedding in 2 weeks and I want to lose another 4lbs by then which means I really need to up my working out. I worked out twice last week which isn't like me. I need to do more! My goal is for 4-5 workouts this week!

So on the flip side of the weekend I can report that I didn't eat insane CNE food. We were STARVING and when we got in to the food building the lines were crazy long. So as I was trying to pick out what we could eat that had a smaller line Sean decided we were having roti and there was no changing his mind. There are certainly worse options in life. I ate half, and a bit more the next day. Yesterday I behaved all day! Still not feeling motivated, but I'm trying to make good choices a habit.

Girls.. I didn't have an amazing weekend for eating. I did try to keep myself aware of my goals, but of course got caught up in the social aspect of the weekend. I had raw oysters Friday night and steak (shriek).. then on Sunday I had three slices of pizza for dinner.. (double shriek).

I did juice all of last week and noticed a bit of a difference in how I was feeling as well as some bloating that went away once I juiced for the week. This weekend will hopefully be a more promising weekend. We are going to be going on a hike Sunday with our close friends.

@calgarybride2015 – Thanks. Eating out is something we both struggle with. It affects our waistlines and our budgets. It’s just too convenient to do that in our neighborhood. Good goals – I may borrow one.

I didn't have a great weekend food-wise. I did manage to have 1 meal at home - breakfast on sunday (yay to fiance for making me pancakes before he left for the day). So hard to keep on plan with all of the social parts of the weekend. Oh well today is a new day.

@yycbride2016 great job with sticking to your daily allotted calories and for losing 2.5 lbs! You have such great motivation, I love it!

@deecol you go girl! Can you share healthy work lunch ideas? I always get stuck thinking of healthy options!

@JoannaBanana I would argue that you're showing quite the motivation with your restraint. Food's my weakness!

@perianjay I was bad with you! I'll blame it on the power outage I was gonna workout yesterday but I had to take Waffle to the vet. The poor girl was whimpering in pain and scratched her ears raw, she has an ear infection. Unfortunately the only available appt they had conflicted with bootcamp. My little Waffle is more important than working out! But today I'm happy to say I did Pilates and have not eaten out! Woohoo

@Janjin weekends are so hard on our waistlines. We're going camping this weekend so I'm not gonna be the healthiest.

Hi all, yesterday went well however I know I did not eat enough. I managed a diet shake at around 3pm and then a low fat pasta with carbonara sauce and small roll. Max calories - 600. Time just ran out. I did manage 20 minutes on my exercise bike and 20 minutes of ab crunches and resistance bands to tone arms.
Will eat more of the good stuff today ☺

Okay, I've updated my signatures with a couple of tickers. When I look at my weight loss ticker I can't believe I've actually come this far. I'm not that far from my original goal, but it feels so out of reach! One day at a time!

@maybeoneday -- you must have been starving!!! I eat that many calories by lunch time!!! Then to work out, you are my hero!

@JoannaBanana -- you have come a long ways and 11 lbs is totally doable and you can do it!!

I am on day 10 of logging my meals and have stayed on track! I didn't weigh myself after Vegas because I knew that would be discouraging so I am not quite sure where I started at, but I know what I was before I went to Vegas. I am up a couple lbs still but have no doubt I can get that off this week/weekend! I got back to the gym as well, yay!

I am really seeing it in my clothes now and my husband posted a picture of my daughter and I on FB from the weekend and I shed a tear. I was horrified at how much you can see 20 lbs on the body It's super motivation to keep plugging away and see my clothes go back to being loose/comfortable, instead of tight!!!